South_ 173
85. _The Question in Congress_ 174
86. _Southern Policy in 1860_ 176
87. _Increase of the Slave-Trade from 1850 to 1860_ 178
88. _Notorious Infractions of the Laws_ 179
89. _Apathy of the Federal Government_ 182
90. _Attitude of the Southern Confederacy_ 187
91. _Attitude of the United States_ 190

CHAPTER XII
THE ESSENTIALS IN THE STRUGGLE

92. _How the Question Arose_ 193
93. _The Moral Movement_ 194
94. _The Political Movement_ 195
95. _The Economic Movement_ 195
96. _The Lesson for Americans_ 196

APPENDICES

A. _A Chronological Conspectus of Colonial and State Legislation
restricting the African Slave-Trade, 1641-1787_ 199

B. _A Chronological Conspectus of State, National, and
International Legislation, 1788-1871_ 234

C. _Typical Cases of Vessels engaged in the American Slave-Trade,
1619-1864_ 306

D. _Bibliography_ 316

INDEX 347

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_Chapter I_

INTRODUCTORY.

1. Plan of the Monograph.
2. The Rise of the English Slave-Trade.

1. ~Plan of the Monograph.~ This monograph proposes to set forth the
efforts made in the United States of America, from early colonial times
until the present, to limit and suppress the trade in slaves between
Africa and these shores.

The study begins with the colonial period, setting forth in brief the
attitude of England and, more in detail, the attitude of the planting,
farming, and trading groups of colonies toward the slave-trade. It deals
next with the first concerted effort against the trade and with the
further action of the individual States. The important work of the
Constitutional Convention follows, together with the history of the
trade in that critical period which preceded the Act of 1807. The
attempt to suppress the trade from 1807 to 1830 is next